socaldave
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I have a 4 month old 55 gal tank with 55lbs live rock. After curing for 6 weeks, I added the 55-100g reef package (20 Turbo snails, 5 nassarius, 20 scarlet, 20 blueleg). After a month I added a maroon clown and a cleaner shrimp, then a month, a royal gramma and just last week a firefish.
I checked the nitrogen cycle (Ammonia = 0, nitrite = 0, nitrate = 20), pH=8.2, salinity = 1.022, temp = 79-80, all seem okay.
Most of the scarlets have been killed by the blueleg, which after reading here I expected and wasn't too concerned, but my Turbos have been doing fine for the entire 4 months until the past week. I have about half a dozen empty snail shells on the floor, and about 3 or 4 that have been taken over by the bluelegs. I don't understand how in 2 weeks I lost half my snails. In 4 months I had no algae show up on the glass, and now I'm scrubbing it every other day. So the decrease in snails has definately shown in the system.
What could be causing my snails to die? I dont think the bluelegs are attacking until they are dead since they used to be mostly at the top of the water. Everyone else in the tank looks great.
Edited to add: The first couple of months I was using tap water until I could afford the RO unit. I now use only RO water and over the past two months I've done four 15 gal water changes.
Any help is appreciated..
~Dave
I checked the nitrogen cycle (Ammonia = 0, nitrite = 0, nitrate = 20), pH=8.2, salinity = 1.022, temp = 79-80, all seem okay.
Most of the scarlets have been killed by the blueleg, which after reading here I expected and wasn't too concerned, but my Turbos have been doing fine for the entire 4 months until the past week. I have about half a dozen empty snail shells on the floor, and about 3 or 4 that have been taken over by the bluelegs. I don't understand how in 2 weeks I lost half my snails. In 4 months I had no algae show up on the glass, and now I'm scrubbing it every other day. So the decrease in snails has definately shown in the system.
What could be causing my snails to die? I dont think the bluelegs are attacking until they are dead since they used to be mostly at the top of the water. Everyone else in the tank looks great.
Edited to add: The first couple of months I was using tap water until I could afford the RO unit. I now use only RO water and over the past two months I've done four 15 gal water changes.
Any help is appreciated..
~Dave
